May 29, 2014

Sunday afternoon I was playing on the computer when I hear, "mommy, I need your help. There's a lizard in the house!" When I looked over, he's holding a broom and dust pan. LOL. Apparently, the lizard got in through the sliding glass door and when he went to grab it by it's tail, it bit him. Do lizards even have teeth? I don't know, but I didn't want to find out. When I asked where it was, Edward said underneath the couch. Good... there's a starting point.

So we go downstairs and I got Pete to lift the couch up so I could get the little guy. At one point, the lizard went under the foot of the couch and if Pete would have dropped the couch, the thing would have died... but I got him in a bowl so we could let him go outside... But before we let him go, I let Edward hold him for a little bit.

May 26, 2014

Happy Monday to you! Zva Creative and our talented Design Team welcome you to our May blog hop! We are very excited to have you join us today and hope you are inspired all of the beautiful work that we are about to share!

The hop begins at Zva Creative’s blog! Be sure head on over to check it out! You will also find a complete list of all the participating blogs there (in case there is a glitch along the way).

As you know, Zva offers many beautiful color groupings for pearls, flowers and crystals. If you like what you see along the hop you can find a list of stores and online retailers that sell Zva HERE.

I have a gorgeous layout to share with you today. The Zva crystals add just about the right touch to this layout. Love how the black jewels make the title pop. And the small jewel flowers are perfect for enhancing your chipboard embellishments or die cuts!

If you would like to play along with our design team, just follow along the blog path. I am linking to one of the Zva designers and that designer is linking to the next and so on. Be prepared to be inspired along the way!

The Blog Hop starts today, May 26th and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, May 28th.

***Prizes***

Hidden on FIVE of the blogs along the way is a Zva Creative prize package! Winners will be randomly chosen after the hop is over. All you need to do is leave a comment on one post... you do not need to leave a comment on each and every designer's blog post to qualify. However, the more times you comment along the blog hop path, the more chances you will have to win.

The 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 28th on Zva Creative’s Facebook page. We will do our best to notify each winner, but it's best if you can pop in to Zva’s page on Wednesday to see if you are a winner!

We also thought it would be more fun to add even more chances to win our blog hop prize! To increase your chances of winning:

* Comment to let us know that you posted on your Facebook page about our hop (link to any of the blog hop posts)

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May 21, 2014

Today we went on a field trip to the Baltimore Zoo with Edward's school. Momom came along too which was awesome! We had such a great time and really lucked out since they were calling for scattered storms and rain. It rain a little bit while we were eating outside which worked out because it cooled us down a little. Apparently, these three are best buds at school :) They are too cute for words!

And this is why I can't say no to him either... those beautiful eyes!

They all held momom's hand on their way to see the animals.

This guy came right up to us. Such a friendly thing. I just wanted to reach out and pet him.

The chimps were very cool. One actually ran and jumped on the glass and scared the crap out of me. I didn't see him, but I heard it and thought, "where's Edward?"

This is my favorite photo from today. I think.

This girl was over in the corner dancing. So cute.

He is so funny... what can I say, he's like his daddy.

Again, they rock :)

They had a blast on the big tree slide!

And Kelly's gonna have problems with this one in the near future... he likes girls :)

I think my heart just stopped.

Best buds forever.

I love how Edward is smiling at Jayda. She's a cutie.

This Is what childhood looks like. Completely.

They had cubs... well, not really babies, they are growing, but they were so cute. I wanted to take one home.

May 10, 2014

I couldn't help myself... I love this photo so much I had to scrap it tonight, while I was inspired! The "Boys Rule" collection by American Crafts-Crate Paper was a perfect match... wouldn't you agree?

These two complain that they don't see each other enough, but when they're together, they bicker... constantly... Parker arrived at 8:00 am for a fun get together with his bff... Since it looked like it was going to rain, I decided to take them to the park at 10:30 for an hour and a half. Best idea ever... They played nice for the most part.

I don't recall ever seeing this sign, but it's a good sign to have. Especially since I have two little ones running around...

All in all, it was a good morning/early afternoon. I only heard Edward say once, "Hummm, you're not my best friend anymore." :) Boys... and the drama... You would have thought they were little girls!

May 8, 2014

Today is my 10th Anniversary. It's hard to believe that I've been married to this man a decade now... And this October, It will be 15 years that we've been together. Wholey crap... I honestly don't know how we made it this far... I guess I have more patience than I though. Lol. It was fun going through all of my old photos of the two of us. We DID have a lot of good memories and lots of fun... Sometimes it's hard to remember the good times during the hard times, but here it is. I made it to the 10 year mark when most marriages don't even make it to the five year mark. I think we need to celebrate this anniversary!

We met on October 21, 1999. I was at a Shindig hosted by a
fraternity in Frostburg. Shindig is a big field party with lots of drinking and
partying. All day long, this guy kept flirting with me and he would not stop. I
kept blowing him off, telling him I wasn’t interested. The first thing he
actually said to me was “How you doing?’ with a southern drawl (he’s from Louisiana). I did not
know at the time that I was lying on his blanket. I saw a blanket and just
decided to plop down and relax a bit. So I’m lying there and he says, “ummm,
that looks mighty tempting.” He just wasn’t going to leave me alone; it was
obvious he wasn’t going to take no for an answer.

Later on that night, my
friends set me up. They told me that there was no room in the car to take me
back to the bar where everyone was meeting up and that I had to ride with Pete.
I had too many drinks to think logically-like how is it that we all got to
Shindig together fine and now all of a sudden there is no room? So Pete and I
went to the bar together and after a few more Tom Collins, I kissed him and
went home alone. The next day, I had bumped into him and he asked me out on a
date. I agreed to go on one date just to be nice. We went up to Deep Creek Lake, MD
and walked around and talked. Little did I know I’d marry him… almost 15 years later,
we are still together, going strong through the good and bad times. We have a
beautiful son named Edward who we adore. We’ve made something really special.
Most of our friends say that we have a different kind of relationship than what
they are used to seeing… I don’t know exactly what that means but whatever it
is, it works for us.

Here are most of the photos that include the two of us!

And here are some old layouts of us. Back in the days when I scrapped 12x12 layouts! It's so fun to see how far I've come with my scrapbooking.